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Excuse Me, Is the Hermann Goering Hot Tub on This Floor?

Nick Gillespie | January 23, 2008, 10:04am

Brent Bozell's Cybercast News Service ("The Right News. Right Now.") reminds us that the world--or at least Serbia--is an endlessly strange and horrifying place:

The Mr. President Hotel, in Belgrade, Serbia, offers hotel rooms named after past or present world leaders. Among them is the $200-a-night Hitler suite, where a portrait of the uniformed German dictator, with a swastika on his arm, hangs on the wall over the king-sized bed.

Other suites honor President George W. Bush, his father, former President George H.W. Bush, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, former Russian dictator Joseph Stalin and former Yugoslavian communist dictator Josip Broz Tito.

Whole thing here. Where, one asks, is the Pierre Trudeau Whoopie Parlor?

Last June, reason's Michael C. Moynihan checked into "The Hotel Honecker," a Berlin "hotel that 'recreates the experience' of East Germany for the budget traveler."

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Comments to "Excuse Me, Is the Hermann Goering Hot Tub on This Floor?":

Taktix® | January 23, 2008, 10:19am | #

Other suites honor President George W. Bush, his father, former President George H.W. Bush, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, former Russian dictator Joseph Stalin and former Yugoslavian communist dictator Josip Broz Tito.

With the exception of Thatcher (arguably), these guys are all in the same class of asshole.

Is there a Friedman/Pinochet room?

[ducks]

SPD | January 23, 2008, 10:22am | #

There was a Pinochet room, but it was disappeared.

"Welcome to the Hotel Honecker. Would you like your room bugged, or unbugged?"

brotherben | January 23, 2008, 10:29am | #

I would have thought Imelda Marcos would have been a shoe-inn for such an honor.

Russ R | January 23, 2008, 10:30am | #

Is there an Idi Amin suite? And if so, what's on the room service menu?

sixstring | January 23, 2008, 10:37am | #

Is there an Idi Amin suite? And if so, what's on the room service menu?


Lady fingers.

NP | January 23, 2008, 10:48am | #

Where are the suites named after Kim Jong-il? Milošević? Ceauşescu? Mugabe? Putin? Lenin? Musso... hell, you get the picture.

tarran | January 23, 2008, 10:52am | #

Obligatory Monty Python reference:

Hitler changes his name and enters British politics

I can't find the video, but this is pretty good too, from Episode 34:
Pither (voice over) Anyway, as we were so far from home, and as Mr Gulliver, still believing himself to be Trotsky, was very tired from haranguing the masses all the way from Monte Carlo,

Cut to military man who thumps the map again.

Military Man Monte Carlo. 100 miles south of Turin. 100 east of Pisa. 500 miles west of Bilbao.

Cut back to Pither.

Pither Thank you. I decided to check...

Pither (voice over) I decided to check...

Pither No, sorry you go on.

Pither (voice over) I decided to check him into a hotel while I visited the British Embassy to ask for help in returning to Cornwall.

They leave the bicycle on the kerb and enter a door with the sign 'YMACA.' over it.

Pither (voice over) And so we registered at the Smolensk Young Men's Anti-Christian Association.

Cut to military man.
Military Man YMACA. Corner of Anti-Semitic Street and Pogrom Square.

Pither (by now standing at the reception desk with Gulliver) Go away. (to departing desk clerk) No, not you. A single room for my friend please.

Desk Clerk Yes, sir. Bugged or unbugged?

Gulliver (as Trotsky) I think I'd be happier with a bugged one.

Desk Clerk Right, one bugged with bath.

Pither Well, just have a nice lie down, and I'll go to the Embassy.
He goes. Gulliver signs hotel register.

Desk Clerk (looking at the book) Trotsky! My lack of God, it's Trotsky!

A couple of people race in excitedly.

Gulliver Comrades. Socialism is not a...
Microsoft does Hitler in:
Hitler's Console gets banned by Microsoft

And, last but not least, nothing can be a kitschy as Mel Brooks' Hitler Rap

Nick | January 23, 2008, 10:52am | #

Bozell probably praised the hotel. This is the same guy that tries to get everything censored. No more South Park if he had his way.

Kevin P. | January 23, 2008, 11:37am | #

I noted the ADL's lack of attention to the hotel room for mass murdered Josef Stalin who murdered far more millions than Hitler did.

Sadly, this is in keeping with the ADL's general support for (the right kind) of totalitarian state:

http://nationalexpositor.com/News/911.html

http://www.ilaalerts.org/UM/T.asp?A1.2.2454.6.134964

atrevete | January 23, 2008, 12:02pm | #

I'd like the Eva Peron room, with a pink balcony and complementary tiara.

SPD | January 23, 2008, 12:05pm | #

tarran,

Great minds quote alike, eh?

zig zag man | January 23, 2008, 12:56pm | #

I'll wait for the Ghengis Khan Room, with its harem of beautiful women and a large animal on a spit roasting over an open fire in the center of the room.

Franklin Harris | January 23, 2008, 1:25pm | #

Among them is the $200-a-night Hitler suite, where a portrait of the uniformed German dictator, with a swastika on his arm, hangs on the wall over the king-sized bed.
In which newlyweds can reenact scenes from The Night Porter.

An Ottawa Reader | January 23, 2008, 1:49pm | #

Is there a Slobo Suite, is the real question.

Gregory | January 23, 2008, 2:42pm | #

It's much more fun in the Bill Clinton suite...

R C Dean | January 23, 2008, 2:45pm | #

It's much more fun in the Bill Clinton suite...

Shag carpet, rotating bed, disco ball lighting, wokka-wokka music . . .

brotherben | January 23, 2008, 4:56pm | #

R C Dean | January 23, 2008, 2:45pm | #

It's much more fun in the Bill Clinton suite...

Shag carpet, rotating bed, disco ball lighting, wokka-wokka music . . ."


wokka wokka music? the sound that of pac-man?

Stevo Darkly | January 25, 2008, 3:49am | #

I prefer the classics. Is there a Caligula room?